Britain’s space-age mobile Antarctic research station

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The Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, designed by British firm Hugh Broughton ArchitectsBAS/BNPS

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Scientists will use it to study ozone depletion, sea-level rise and climate changeSamBurrell/BNPS

Times Staff

Published at 12:01AM, February 8 2013

This futuristic-looking facility on skis is actually the £25 million future of cutting-edge British research in Antarctica

It looks like a spaceship from the Star Wars universe which has crash landed
on a frozen planet far far away. But this futuristic-looking facility on
skis is actually the £25 million future of cutting-edge British research in
Antarctica.

It is the world’s first re-relocatable research centre designed specifically
to be moved around to avoid being buried under snow like other stations in
the unforgiving region.

The Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, designed by British firm Hugh
Broughton Architects, officially opened this week and scientists will use it
to study Ozone depletion, sea-level rise and climate change and